Nicholas hartmann



(No Model.)

N. HARTMANN.

GUSPIDOR.

No. 426,410. Patented Apr. 22 1890.

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* UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC NICHOLAS HARIMANN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO MARTIN SCHROEDER, OF SAME PLACE.

CUSPIDOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,410, dated April 22, 1890. Application filed December 29, 1888. Serial No. 295,112. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, NICHOLAS HARTMANN, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvaniahave invented a new and useful Improvement in Guspidors, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a cuspidor providetl with a hinged lid or top and means for readily opening the same.

It also consists of means for closing said lid or top.

Figure 1 represents a partial side elevation I 5 and partial vertical section of a cuspidor embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a rear View thereof. Fig. 3 represents a bottom view of a portion thereof. Fig. 4: represents a vertical section of a portion on line a: w, Fig. 2, on an enlarged scale.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the body of a cuspidor, having a hinged or pivotal lid or top-B, which may be raised and opened in order to have access to the interior of the body, when occasion requires such action.

Connected with the body A at what may be termed the back thereof is a tube 0, which extends vertically and has a ring or loop D at its upper end, forming a handle whereby the cuspidor may be readily carried. Within the tube 0 is a sliding rod E, to the lower end of which is pivoted an arm F, which occupies a position partly below the body A, and is pivoted to the bottom thereof, as at a.

G designates a spring, which in the present case is secured to the under side of the bottom of the body, and bears downwardly against the arm F for restoring said arm and the rod E, with connected parts, to their normal positions.

Rising from the pivotal connection of the rod E and arm F are links H, to the upper ends of which are pivoted the ears J of the hinged lid B, said ears being secured to said lid and having their axis on the tube 0, as at b. The upper end of the rod E is provided with a knob K, which occupies a position within the ring or handle D, s) that said rod may be conveniently raised. In the side of the rod below said knob is a notch or recess L,

into which drops a spring-pressed pin or latch M, which is guided in a boss N, projecting from the tube 0 at the upper end thereof.

' It will be seen that when the lid B is to be opened the knob K is grasped and the rod E raised, whereby as the links H follow the motion of said rod the lid is thrown upwardly co and thereby opened. WVhen the recess L reaches the point or inner'end of the latch M, said end drops into said recess, whereby the rod is locked and the lid held open. As the arm F is raised by the rod, it compresses the spring G, the lid being in the positions shown by the dotted lines, Fig. 1. When the cuspidor is to be closed, the latch M is withdrawn from the recess L, whereby the spring G exerts its pressure on the arm F, and consequently on the rod and links and lid, whereby the latter quickly returns to its nor mal position, closing on the top of the body.

The tube 0 provides convenient means for carrying the cuspidor, and avoids bending 7 5 over in order to reach either the body or lid of the article.

I am aware that it is not new to provide a spittoon with a pivoted lid adapted to be raised or lowered by a rod operating within a tube which is connected with the side of the spittoon; but I am not aware that the particular combination of parts, as herein set forth and claimed, wherein the ears of the lid are directly pivoted to the tube, and a link connected with the lower end of the rod is connected to said ears, whereby the lid is reliably raised, has ever before been known or used.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letgo ters Patent, is

1. A cuspidor having a side tube, a movable rod in said tube, an arm secured to the bottom of the cuspidor and the lower end of the rod, a lid for the cuspidor having cars 5 pivoted to the tube, links pivotally attached to the ears and to the pivotal connection of the rod and arm, and a catch or stop for said rod, said parts being combined substantially as described. 10

2. A cuspidor having the vertical tube C, connected With the body A thereof, the said tube having a handle, the sliding rod E within the tube, the arm F, pivotally connected with the body A and the lower end of the rod, the lid 13 with the ears J, the latter pivotally secured to the tube, the ]ink H, pivotally connected with the ears J and the pivotal eonnection of the arm and rod, the spring G, hearing against the arm F, and a catch adapted IO to engage With the rod, said parts being combined substantially as described. I

. NICHOLAS HARTMANN. Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERsHEIM, L. JENNINGS. 

